Intel Corp.'s venture-capital arm is planning to invest a further $500 million in China over the next three to five years on companies focusing on wireless broadband, communications, media technology and clean technology.
The 300-mm wafer fab in Catania Italy, which has been an empty shell for many years, is going to have to wait a little while longer before being equipped, to judge from a Numonyx manufacturing strategy that will use NAND
Emcore and Spectrolab are joining SolFocus and others in the CPV Consortium, with the aim of increasing the small fraction of the solar power market its members currently claim.
Workers at STMicroelectronics' manufacturing site in Rousset, France, have been on strike since March 20 over better wages. The General Confederation of Labor, French trade union, asked yesterday (April 6) that the Prefect of Bouches-du-Rhone sets up a meeting between
Motorola agreed to seat two of Carl Icahn's nominees to its board to prevent the billionaire investor from staging a hostile overthrow of the dividing company.
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) engineers have crafted an algorithm called Logistic Regression Markov Chain (LRMC) that is said to correctly picks National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball results better than any other method.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) announced plans to adjust its cost structure by reducing its workforce by approximately 10 percent by the end of the third quarter of 2008.